Water Polo, Men

Competition 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournaments for Water Polo - Men
Venue Oradea ROU
Held 2 – 9 March 2008
Status Consolation
Competitors 154
Countries 12

Participants:

  • ROU (host; [also placed second at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament])

  • RUS (placed third at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament)
  • GRE (placed fourth at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament)
  • ITA (placed fifth at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament)
  • GER (placed sixth at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament)

  • BRA (placed second at the 2007 Pan American Games)
  • CAN (placed third at the 2007 Pan American Games)
  • MEX (probably invited as all other nation from America declined)

JPN (placed second at the 2006 Asian Games) withdrew.

  • KAZ (placed third at the 2006 Asian Games)
  • IRI (placed fourth at the 2006 Asian Games) was invited.

  • MKD (placed seventh at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament) was invited.
  • SVK (placed ninth at the European Water Polo Olympic Qualification Tournament) was invited.

GER, ITA, GRE, and CAN qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
1 Germany GER 6 1 0
Alexander Tchigir / Florian Naroska / Timo Purschke / Marko Savic / Steffen Dierolf / Marc Politze / Heiko Nossek / Thomas Schertwitis / Tobias Kreuzmann / Moritz Oeler / Andreas Schlotterbeck / Sören Mackeben / Michael Zellmer
2 Italy ITA 5 2 1
Stefano Tempesti / Francesco Postiglione / Leonardo Binchi / Fabrizio Buonocore / Luigi Di Costanzo / Maurizio Felugo / Andrea Mangiante / Alberto Angelini / Fabio Bencivenga / Alessandro Calcaterra / Leonardo Sottani / Federico Mistrangelo / Fabio Violetti
3 Greece GRE 6 0 1
Nikolaos Deligiannis / Anastasios Schizas / Dimitrios Mazis / Konstantinos Kokkinakis / Ioannis Thomakos / Argyris Theodoropoulos / Christos Afroudakis / Georgios Ntoskas / Georgios Afroudakis / Dimitrios Miteloudis / Manthos Voulgarakis / Emmanouil Mylonakis / Georgios Reppas
4 Canada CAN 4 1 3
Robin Randall / Con Kudaba / Devon Diggle / Kevin Mitchell / Justin Boyd / Thomas Marks / Brandon Jung / Kevin Graham / Aaron Feltham / Sasa Palamarevic / Jean Sayegh / Nathaniel Miller / Nic Youngblud
5 Romania ROU 5 0 2
Bertini Nenciu / Cosmin Radu / Tiberiu Negrean / Florin Bonca / Andrei Iosep / Andrei Bușilă / Gheorghe Dunca / Ramiro Georgescu / Edward Andrei / George Georgescu / Cosmin Radu / Kalman Kadar / Robert Dinu
6 Russia RUS 3 0 4
Semen Davitashvili / Sergey Lisunov / Sergey Yevstigneyev / Yevgeny Finaev / Roman Balashov / Aleksandr Yeryshov / Pavel Khalturin / Dmitry Stratan / Andrey Rekechinsky / Marat Zakirov / Sergey Garbuzov / Irek Zinnurov / Dmitry Dugin
7 Slovakia SVK 4 0 3
Michal Gogola / Peter Nedbal / Juraj Zaťovič / Jozef Hrošík / Lukáš Seman / Alexander Nagy / Martin Palaščák / Karol Bačo / Andrej Janíček / Martin Mravík / Michal Kratochvil / Tomáš Brúder / Michal Hruška
8 North Macedonia MKD 3 0 4
Dalibor Percinić / Risto Maliković / Ivan Vuksanović / Goran Krstonošić / Nebojša Milić / Saško Popovski / Marko Mičić / Vladimir Krečković / Dušan Krstić / Marko Bašić / Dimitar Dimovski / Danijel Benić / Miloš Urošević
9 Brazil BRA 3 0 5
Luís dos Santos / Vicente Henriques / Gabriel Rocha / Lucas Vita / Marcelo Franco / Conrado Bertoluzzi / Bernardo Rocha / Felipe Silva / Erik Seegerer / Bruno Nolasco / Mario Carotini / Rafael Farias / Anderson Souza
10 Iran IRI 1 1 6
Alireza Shahidipour / Arameh Aghazarian / Seyed Mir Mehdi / Mahdi Karamizarandi / Mohammad Mehdi Teiran / Ali Pirouzkhah / Kambiz Afshari / Soheil Khadempir / Mohsen Jalili / Aliakbar Shirijian / Sadjad Abdihanjani / Amir Hossein Khani / Meisam Jafari
11 Mexico MEX 1 1 5
Orlando Ortega / Diego Castañeda / Rainier Schmidt / Jorge López / Daniel Vázquez / Maximiliano Aguilar / Oliver Álvarez / Fausto Vázquez / Armando García / Richard Schmidt / Gonzalo Mejía / Jorge Pérez / Andrés Oneto
12 Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 7
Dmitry Axyonkin / Mikhail Kolotvin / Amirbek Saparov / Nurlan Sartaev / Alan Orazalinov / Roman Pilipenko / Yernur Koileyev / Rustam Ukumanov / Mikhail Ruday / Ravil Manafov / Adil Temrkhanov / Aleksey Demchenko

Preliminary Round

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Greece GRE 5 0 0 10
2 Romania ROU 4 0 1 8
3 Russia RUS 3 0 2 6
4 Slovakia SVK 2 0 3 4
5 Brazil BRA 1 0 4 2
6 Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 5 0

Matches

Greece GRE 15-6 Brazil BRA
Romania ROU 7-6 Slovakia SVK
Russia RUS 19-4 Kazakhstan KAZ
Greece GRE 11-9 Slovakia SVK
Romania ROU 11-8 Russia RUS
Brazil BRA 9-6 Kazakhstan KAZ
Greece GRE 18-8 Kazakhstan KAZ
Romania ROU 13-4 Brazil BRA
Russia RUS 12-3 Slovakia SVK
Greece GRE 8-7 Romania ROU
Russia RUS 11-3 Brazil BRA
Slovakia SVK 18-5 Kazakhstan KAZ
Greece GRE 8-6 Russia RUS
Romania ROU 19-2 Kazakhstan KAZ
Slovakia SVK 12-6 Brazil BRA

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Germany GER 4 1 0 9
2 Italy ITA 3 2 0 8
3 Canada CAN 3 1 1 7
4 North Macedonia MKD 2 0 3 4
5 Iran IRI 0 1 4 1
6 Mexico MEX 0 1 4 1

Matches

Germany GER 11-6 Canada CAN
Italy ITA 20-2 Iran IRI
North Macedonia MKD 18-9 Mexico MEX
Germany GER 29-1 Mexico MEX
Italy ITA 14-5 North Macedonia MKD
Canada CAN 15-5 Iran IRI
Germany GER 9-4 North Macedonia MKD
Italy ITA 7-7 Canada CAN
Iran IRI 8-8 Mexico MEX
Germany GER 18-2 Iran IRI
Italy ITA 25-4 Mexico MEX
Canada CAN 12-7 North Macedonia MKD
Germany GER 5-5 Italy ITA
Canada CAN 18-6 Mexico MEX
North Macedonia MKD 11-6 Iran IRI

Quarter-Finals

Italy ITA 11-10 Russia RUS
Canada CAN 9-8 Romania ROU
Brazil BRA 8-7 Mexico MEX
Iran IRI 6-4 Kazakhstan KAZ

Semi-Finals

Germany GER 8-6 Canada CAN
Italy ITA 9-8 Greece GRE
Slovakia SVK 18-4 Iran IRI
North Macedonia MKD 10-8 Brazil BRA

Final

Germany GER 10-9
After Extra Time
Italy ITA
Greece GRE 13-4 Canada CAN
Romania ROU 10-9 Russia RUS
Slovakia SVK 9-7 North Macedonia MKD
Brazil BRA 10-1 Iran IRI
Mexico MEX 11-9 Kazakhstan KAZ